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Event Details:
| Event | Tornado |
| -- Scale | EF1 |
| -- Length | 4.93 Miles |
| -- Width | 600 Yards |
| State | TEXAS |
| County/Area | SMITH |
| WFO | SHV |
| Report Source | NWS Storm Survey |
| NCEI Data Source | CSV |
| Begin Date | 2025-05-06 12:41 CST-6 |
| Begin Location | 2NW BULLARD |
| Begin Lat/Lon | 32.151/-95.3517 |
| End Date | 2025-05-06 12:48 CST-6 |
| End Location | 4ENE BULLARD |
| End Lat/Lon | 32.1412/-95.2683 |
| Deaths Direct/Indirect | 0/0 (fatality details below, when available...) |
| Injuries Direct/Indirect | 0/0 |
| Property Damage | 25.00K |
| Crop Damage | 0.00K |
| Episode Narrative | An upper level low pressure system over the Desert Southwest shifted east through the Intermountain West on May 6th, inducing surface low development over West Texas. This also resulted in a tightening pressure gradient across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley, with increased southerly low level winds allowing for a warm front to shift north to the I-20 corridor of East Texas and North Louisiana before becoming stationary later in the day. A warm, moist, and unstable air mass developed during the 6th south of the front, as large scale forcing increased near and south of the front ahead of the upper trough. As a result, showers and thunderstorms, some of which became severe, developed across East Texas and North Louisiana, producing damaging winds, locally heavy rainfall, and isolated tornadoes. Given the already saturated grounds from heavy rainfall that fell only several days prior, flash flooding was also observed through the afternoon and evening. |
| Event Narrative | An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 93 mph touched down in a rural area west of Bullard in an open field just east of County Road 173 and gradually grew in size and strength as it continued just south of due east into the north side of Bullard. The tornado was at its most intense near North Houston Street and west of US Highway 69 where several hardwood trees exhibited snapped trunks and uprooted trees were quite concentrated, especially on the west side of a neighborhood just north of Lynch Drive. In this neighborhood, there were also quite a few residences with low end roof damage, mainly in the form of shingle loss. In this general area, there were also some residences damaged by falling trees and tree limbs, but this was also the case east of Highway 69 in a residential area just north of East Henderson Street and in the rather large Pecan Valley subdivision south of East Henderson Street. The tornadic circulation appeared to have gone across the entirety of the latter subdivision. Many trees were uprooted in various directions in this subdivision, but the well-built residences in this area generally did not sustain direct damage from the tornado because the winds were only judged at EF-0 intensity. Throughout the length of the tornado, downed hardwood and softwood trees were primarily uprooted and the somewhat saturated state of the soils likely yielded more uproots than would otherwise have been the case if the soils were not as moist and the survey team took this into account in their rating assessment. East of this neighborhood, the tornado continued across County Road 121 before the NWS survey team judged the tornado lifted near the intersection of County Road 118 and County Road 117. There were several individuals in the path of this tornado that were interviewed by the survey team and who reported seeing the tornado on approach. The tornado itself was part of an organized thunderstorm squall line that was producing damaging wind gusts and doing at least isolated tree damage through the southern portion of Smith County Texas. The survey team estimated the tornado path away from other general tree damage due to tree damage oriented in different directions and at least occasionally exhibiting convergent damage signatures. |
Event Map:
Note: The tornado track is approximate based on the beginning (B) and ending (E) locations. The actual tornado path may differ from a straight line.All events for this episode:
| Location | County/Zone | St. | Date | Time | T.Z. | Type | Mag | Dth | Inj | PrD | CrD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals: | 0 | 0 | 25.00K | 0.00K | |||||||
| MACON | FRANKLIN CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 10:07 | CST-6 | Hail | 0.75 in. | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K |
| MT PLEASANT | TITUS CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 10:38 | CST-6 | Hail | 1.00 in. | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K |
| FLINT | SMITH CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 11:50 | CST-6 | Hail | 1.00 in. | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K |
| GRESHAM | SMITH CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 11:52 | CST-6 | Hail | 1.00 in. | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K |
| GOLDEN | WOOD CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 12:04 | CST-6 | Thunderstorm Wind | 52 kts. EG | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K |
| BULLARD | SMITH CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 12:41 | CST-6 | Tornado | EF1 | 0 | 0 | 25.00K | 0.00K |
| HENDERSON | RUSK CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 13:45 | CST-6 | Thunderstorm Wind | 52 kts. EG | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K |
| MINDEN | RUSK CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 13:52 | CST-6 | Thunderstorm Wind | 52 kts. EG | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K |
| LINDALE | SMITH CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 14:00 | CST-6 | Flash Flood | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| SHILOH | RUSK CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 14:02 | CST-6 | Thunderstorm Wind | 56 kts. EG | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K |
| WOOD SPGS | SMITH CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 14:02 | CST-6 | Flash Flood | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| WASKOM | HARRISON CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 14:26 | CST-6 | Hail | 1.00 in. | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K |
| TENNERYVILLE | GREGG CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 15:34 | CST-6 | Flash Flood | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| BONITA JCT | NACOGDOCHES CO. | TX | 05/06/2025 | 16:05 | CST-6 | Flash Flood | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| Totals: | 0 | 0 | 25.00K | 0.00K |
